as in to delete
to make changes to (something written) so as to remove or obscure information
Because the victims were minors, their full names were redacted from public court records. The declassified documents were heavily redacted before they were released.
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Recent Examples of redact
Some apps specialize in identifying and redacting sensitive information within user prompts before they are submitted to LLMs.
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Vinay Goel, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
Few records in the HUD system are redacted or anonymized, and many contain deeply personal material about those who have alleged or been accused of housing discrimination.
—Jesse Coburn, ProPublica, 26 Feb. 2025
The nature of the incidents was redacted from the warrant.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 4 Mar. 2025
The bulk of those 11,000-plus pages are heavily redacted, and Justice Department prosecutors have fought their release for years.
—Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2025
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Vinay Goel, Forbes, 28 Feb. 2025
Few records in the HUD system are redacted or anonymized, and many contain deeply personal material about those who have alleged or been accused of housing discrimination.
—Jesse Coburn, ProPublica, 26 Feb. 2025
The nature of the incidents was redacted from the warrant.
—Justin Muszynski, Hartford Courant, 4 Mar. 2025
The bulk of those 11,000-plus pages are heavily redacted, and Justice Department prosecutors have fought their release for years.
—Julie K. Brown, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for redact
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Platt deleted the post, but not before other social media users were able to take snaps of it and outlets like The Hollywood Reporter were able to quote it.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes.com,
29 Mar. 2025
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The post, which was seen by CNN, was deleted late Friday afternoon after screenshots of it started to circulate on Chinese social media.—
Will Ripley,
CNN Money,
29 Mar. 2025
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Its streets were power washed, graffiti was erased, trash was cleared, and the city’s sizable homeless population was relocated.—
Carson Becker,
The Washington Examiner,
28 Mar. 2025
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This year was a step in the right direction for the program, but that’s all erased if Kevin Willard leaves.—
Baltimore Sun staff,
Baltimore Sun,
28 Mar. 2025
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They were also barred from installing any software on SSA devices and ordered to remove any such software installed since the beginning of the Trump administration.—
Thomas G. Moukawsher,
Newsweek,
22 Mar. 2025
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Each of those originals have offensive depictions of non-white characters (like the Siamese cats in Lady and the crows in Dumbo), and each of their 2019 remakes rightfully remove those depictions.—
Josh Spiegel,
The Hollywood Reporter,
22 Mar. 2025
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“Redact.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/redact. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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